[ale] OT: CSS confusion

[Tom & JaVonn]

Christopher:

Well that SOUNDED like a great solution.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work any differently when I use the <p> tag, unless I add "margin: 3px;" to the tag.  I also created a class p.close, thinking to use it for closer spacing, but it is ignored (the color is different).

As before, the table header looks OK in Opera, but not in Mozilla 1.0 or Netscape 6.2.3
In all 3 browsers, the line spacing is large even using the <p> tag unless a margin is set.

So, I'm still confused!

Thanks,
Tom

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:13:32 -0500
"Christopher R. Curzio" <ale at accipiter.org> wrote:

> Tom,
> 
> You're using header tags. The spacing is *supposed* to be large. You
> should be using <p> tags for standard body text. If you absolutely must
> use header tags for whatever reason, your complaint is easily solved by
> tweaking the margin.
> 
> See: http://www.accipiter.org/moztest/tom.html
> 
> That's the result of simply adding "margin: 3px;" to your h3 definition. 
> 
> -- 
> Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
> http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
> :wq!
> 
> 
> Thus Spake Tom & JaVonn <pairoftwins at mindspring.com>:
> Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:07:45 -0500
> 
> 
> > Christopher:
> > 
> > The problem is huge spaces between the lines of text, which I've been
> > unable to reduce.  Remove the CSS and it looks OK.
> > 
> > Mozilla 1.0  huge spaces between lines, header of table 3-4 times as
> > high as text inside Netscape 6.2.3  same as Mozilla
> > Opera 5      huge spaces between lines, header of table OK (same as
> > body)
> > 
> > So, a table becomes largely empty space with text in the middle, except
> > with Opera. In all cases, two adjacent lines, each enclosed in CSS tags,
> > have a large gap between them. I tried upgrading Mozilla to 1.2.1, but
> > in Debian it would have meant pulling libc6 and libstdc++ from the
> > unstable tree, which didn't appeal.  Besides, hasn't CSS been around
> > since 1998 ?  Mozilla 1.0 should support that.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > 
> > Tom
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ---------------------- On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:47:25 -0500
> > "Christopher R. Curzio" <ale at accipiter.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Cool. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > I had a look at your page, and your CSS. I can't figure out what it is
> > > you're asking. The page seems to render just fine, exactly as the CSS
> > > dictates. What are you trying to accomplish? Where's the problem?
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
> > > http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam possit
> > > materiari?:wq!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thus Spake Tom & JaVonn <pairoftwins at mindspring.com>:
> > > Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:07:00 -0500
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Christopher:
> > > > 
> > > > OK here is a sample, using a CSS copied and pasted from StyleBank,
> > > > which doesn't exist today, but did two weeks ago. (All googles links
> > > > come up"missing domain" today)  The table is from a friend's site,
> > > > which I'm wanting to remove embedded font info from, and modernize.
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.darecomputer.com/sample_css.html
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > Tom
> > > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:27:28 -0500
> > > > "Christopher R. Curzio" <ale at accipiter.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > You're not really going to get anywhere unless you provide an
> > > > > example of the page that exhibits this behavior. Please provide a
> > > > > link.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota
> > > > > monax http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam
> > > > > possit materiari?:wq!
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thus Spake Tom & JaVonn <pairoftwins at mindspring.com>:
> > > > > Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:08:18 -0500
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Anyone:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Please explain why, as soon as I apply a CSS tag to a page, the
> > > > > > line spacing looks like its TRIPLE spaced.  I spent hours trying
> > > > > > variations on line-height and padding and margins, to no avail. 
> > > > > > Table elements become huge, and ordinary text has a huge space
> > > > > > before the next tagged text.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I even copied CSS code from online sites, replacing my own
> > > > > > completely, with SAME RESULTS.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Does my declaration affect this:
> > > > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN">
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Tom
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